It was a hectic week in my household as we identified the mysterious LonelyGirl15 actress. TV crews and radio and press couldn’t get enough of this story.

(In case you missed it, LonelyGirl was a Net phenomenon, in which a young girl, posing as a naive, home-schooled teenager, posted a series of video blogs that became hugely popular. Turns out that “Bree” was actually an actress and the whole thing was made up. SVW broke the news of the hoax last week.)

It’s always strange to be in the media and be interviewed by the media. My 18-year-old son, Matthew, did the online sleuthing, so he bore the brunt of the endless interviews. He wants nothing to do with journalism now that he’s seen how the sausage is made.

But I don’t think he has a choice. Journalism is something that gets in your blood, and your blood becomes part printer’s ink (metaphorically, of course).

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. . . Sun Microsystems is planning a press event featuring John Gage, its chief researcher, but to attend you will have to create a digital avatar. That’s because Sun is hosting the event on Second Life, the virtual world with a virtually real economy.

Second Life might be an apt description for Sun itself. It’s had to reinvent itself fairly drastically to recover from the dot-com dot-bomb collapse. And virtual worlds such as Second Life need high-powered computer hardware such as that from Sun to make them realistic.

. . . Jeff Nolan, a prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist who built his career at SAP, the world’s largest IT applications company, is leaving to head his own startup. He had been working in SAP’s venture investing group, and most recently, formulating SAP’s strategy to “kill Oracle.” I’ve been promised the details of his new company in the next few days.

I like it when VC guys go off and run startups; it shows they have the moxie to do it. And that’s where the real returns are these days anyway, running your own company rather than managing other people’s money and picking through a lackluster deal flow.

Do you have a boss that is a complete ass hat? Is he the type of guy you look at and say, “forget closing deals, this fool can’t even close a door.”

I had one of those bosses. And with alarming frequency, he would go over his idiot minutes allotment for the week within the first 48 hours.

The identity of Sand Hill Slave is a mystery. I was lucky enough to meet Sand Hill Slave a little while ago for drinks at the St. Regis. However, unlike LonelyGirl15, I have no desire to unmask this person. All I will say is that Sand Hill Slave is most definitely not written by a man.